Vaughn Climenhaga, a geometer at the University of Houston, wrote to invite you to a workshop there May 15-17, with a preparatory pre-workshop event for graduate students May 13-14. The theme of the workshop is hyperbolicity in dynamical systems, including thermodynamic formalism, […]
One of the things that concerns me as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at Michigan has been the mental health of our graduate students. It seems that students feel under much more pressure than ever, with anxiety levels increasing dramatically […]
Please consider taking advantage of the following sessions from Rackham. These might be helpful if you are stressing about finding an advisor or about your relationship with your advisor, stressing about how to write cover letters, stressing about the difference […]
Don’t miss junior colloquium this week! Our Research at Michigan Series continues with Professor Liliana Borcea, telling us about her work On the continuum limit of inverse spectral problems As usual, the event is held in Room 3088, Friday at 4 […]
Our Marjorie Lee Browne speaker, Dr. Ricardo Cortez, told us today that he is recruiting graduate students and post-docs to be speakers this July at the SIAM Annual meeting, where he is organizing a session in celebration of diversity. Please reach […]
Our department has hosted a Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday each year since 1999. Marjorie Lee Brown was our department’s first, and one the nation’s first, African American women to earn the PhD […]
Please join us for the first Junior Colloquium of the Semester. Tomorrow the “Research at Michigan” series continues with Professor Sasha Barvinok telling us about his research into The mathematics of computational complexity. Room 3088 from 4 to 5pm. Everyone is […]
Rackham offers “Faculty Ally” grants up to 12K per year, for the purpose of making departments better for all graduate students, including students from under-represented demographics. A few years ago, PhD student Patricia Klein took the lead on designing a […]
The organizers wrote to invite you to the 2020 Conference for Graduate Students in Topology and Geometry, if you are a PhD student doing research in topology/geometry or considering these areas as a research direction. They have funding! Please check it […]
“This summer, change the lives of underserved students with exceptional potential in math” Ruthi Hortsch (BS UM, 2012) wrote to recruit Michigan math graduate students, post-docs and faculty to teach math this summer for BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), […]
